Advice and opinions needed!

Archived from groups: alt.comp.hardware.overclocking.amd (More info?)

In article <cmedkk$rpd$1@newsg1.svr.pol.co.uk>, suk@itspambot.com
(REMUS) wrote:

> Could anyone give me recommendations

Buy a cheap box from http://www.itdealers.co.uk for work rather
than play, and put the rest away towards your student loan :-)

Sadly I'm serious, I feel really sorry for our youth getting
lumbered with so much debt, especially when so many courses are
designed mainly at keeping people off the unemployment queues for
three years.

Good luck with the PC and your future :-)

Andrew McP

PS I think we a £350 budget you should stick to socket A. Do some
reading around about the mobile Athlon, which is very
overclockable, but may need a latest motherboard BIOS to be fully
supported. My gaming box has one running at 2.2GHz and the only
thing that pushes it hard is a particularly demanding flight sim.
Don't worry too much about expensive RAM you can push to
ridiculous fsb speeds. I've been there and wasted a lot of money
for relatively little gain. One 512Mb stick of 512Mb pc3200
running at 166-200 will do fine (don't worry about two sticks for
"dual channel" either). Rather than buy faster ram, buy another
stick of 512, which is increasingly useful. For a vid card you
can't do better than one of the 9700Pro cards that are floating
around Ebay or overclockers.co.uk. A 9800Pro would be better, but
the 9700 isn't that far behind and can still hold its head up high
in games. For the CPU/cooler/RAM/motherboard I'd suggest
http://www.cpucitystore.co.uk, who are still small enough to give
reliably excellent service in my experience.

Hope that helps, though I really shouldn't be leading you astray
;-)

Archived from groups: alt.comp.hardware.overclocking.amd (More info?)

Abit NF7-S v2 not S2 MB or Shuttle AN35N-Ultra or Soltek SL-75FRN2-RL
AMD Mobile 2500+
DDR400 Ram Something that will work in the MB that you chose at cas 2.5
GF5900XT/SE or ATI 9800 or ATI 9700

Or save your money until the PCIe 939 Ultra Motherboards come down in price,
could be a while.
The features on the new Nforce4 PCIe 939 Ultra Motherboards will make it
worth the wait.
PCIe has the potential but today's video cards need some work to fully use
the PCIe.
The SLI feature that will offered on some of the Nforce4 PCIe 939 Ultra's is
worth the hype.
To use the SLI feature it will require two video cards linked together,
rather costly.

"REMUS" <suk@itspambot.com> wrote in message
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> Ok I ditched pc's and my old rig a while back to buy a bass guitar and amp
> but now I have £350 scraped together (hey i'm only a 6th form student!) to
> buy a new processor, motherboard and ram.
>
> Could anyone give me reccomendations for a good overclocking combo since
> hopefully after christmas i'll have a water cooling system operational
> too.
>
> I will mainly be using this computer for gaming rather than anything else,
> so do I need a 64 bit cpu? Or will a Socket A 3200+ do the job, I could
> spend more on a gfx card then?
>
> And is PCI express worthy of the hype its recieve'd?
>
> Cheers
>
>

Archived from groups: alt.comp.hardware.overclocking.amd (More info?)

The nforce4 has not yet hit the retail market yet, should start seeing them
by years end.
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipse [...] i=2248&p=2

"REMUS" <suk@itspambot.com> wrote in message
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>
>> Abit NF7-S v2 not S2 MB or Shuttle AN35N-Ultra or Soltek SL-75FRN2-RL
>> AMD Mobile 2500+
>> DDR400 Ram Something that will work in the MB that you chose at cas 2.5
>> GF5900XT/SE or ATI 9800 or ATI 9700
>
> Yeah this would proberbly be the set up I would go for, if I didn't go
> 64bit.
>
>> Or save your money until the PCIe 939 Ultra Motherboards come down in
> price,
>> could be a while.
>> The features on the new Nforce4 PCIe 939 Ultra Motherboards will make it
>> worth the wait.
>
> Can you give me some exsamples of some of the best Ultra mobo's plz?
>
>> The SLI feature that will offered on some of the Nforce4 PCIe 939 Ultra's
> is
>> worth the hype.
>> To use the SLI feature it will require two video cards linked together,
>> rather costly.
>
> Sounds interesting, a bit like the old voodo 2 cards you could link
> together?
>
>
> BTW Thanks for the advice + suggestions so far Rusty, Chip and Andy.
>
>